Category Archives: Twitter

Much along the lines of PGDP and Recaptcha, The Book Oven is aiming to make social collaboration proofreading available for all publishers (public domain or otherwise), in a simple way by chopping text into sentence blocks, much in the way … Continue reading →

Instead of the normal channels that electronic goods pass through to get to retailers, Kogan order their stock directly from the manufacturer and sell direct to the public, cutting out the middlemen the difference is at the bottom line, with … Continue reading →

Taking an obvious leaf from Distributed Proofreaders (pgdp.net), Ancestry has decided to let the public swarm over their undigitised records, and help turn them into searchable data. This will no doubt save them money and get some free advertising at … Continue reading →

Selling pirate copies of a Disney movie that isn’t allowed out of the Disney vault? I feel sad for the people who buy this stuff. Amended on 25th Jan 2011: The site no longer directly sells pirate copies. Instead it’s … Continue reading →

This huge collection of old music is an immense one-man archive project, that until recently enjoyed being undiscovered by mostly everybody. After a minor hiccup (his host Yahoo killed him temporarily) he’s back to full steam, digitising his old 78s … Continue reading →